Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, sends an email to Joseph MacManus, executive assistant to Clinton, and Patrick Kennedy, under secretary of state for management, with the subject heading: “Threat.” All of the several lines of text in the email are later redacted. There are several classification codes justifying the redaction, including one for information that would “disclose investigative techniques” and one for information that would “endanger life or physical safety of any individual.”

A couple of days earlier, five Republican Congresspeople accused Abedin of having family members tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, so this threat might somehow relate to that. (The accusations are widely dismissed in the mainstream media.) (CBS News, 7/19/2012)

On the same day, there is another email chain started by State Department diplomatic security official David Gallagher. It might be related, but all the substantial content is redacted, including the subject headings. All of Gallagher’s comments in two emails are redacted for the same above-mentioned reasons of disclosing investigative techniques and endangering lives. A comment in the chain from Abedin and CCed to Clinton is also later redacted for threatening to disclose investigative techniques. (US Department of State, 12/31/2015)